Business Architect Contracts

Business Architect
UK

The median Business Architect daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 663 747
Rank change year-on-year +156 +84 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 79 59 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.098% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.10% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 40 51
10th Percentile £463 £525 £500
25th Percentile £504 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £675 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +9.85% +2.42%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £719
90th Percentile £800 £901 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Business Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Architect.

Daily rate trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +127 65 £588 -12.96% 12
London +123 49 £588 -18.97% 8
Work from Home +137 30 £569 -21.55% 2
UK excluding London +61 16 £530 -20.00% 4
North of England +29 8 £897 +49.49% 2
South West +19 5 £530 -25.61% 1
North West +10 5 £675 +17.39% 2
Wales - 3 £525 -
North East - 3 £897 -
Scotland +25 1 £675 -6.90%

Business Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Business Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Architect in the job title.

1 27 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.38%) Security Cleared
3 23 (29.11%) SC Cleared
4 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (26.58%) Roadmaps
6 19 (24.05%) Business Strategy
6 19 (24.05%) Agile
6 19 (24.05%) Business Analysis
7 18 (22.78%) Decision-Making
8 17 (21.52%) Enterprise Architecture
8 17 (21.52%) Management Information System
9 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (20.25%) Public Sector
10 15 (18.99%) Target Operating Model
11 14 (17.72%) Finance
12 12 (15.19%) Azure
12 12 (15.19%) Project Delivery
13 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (13.92%) Data Management
14 10 (12.66%) TOGAF
14 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
14 10 (12.66%) Analytics
15 9 (11.39%) AWS
15 9 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
16 8 (10.13%) Project Management
16 8 (10.13%) IT Strategy
17 7 (8.86%) Business Case
17 7 (8.86%) Degree
17 7 (8.86%) Business Transformation

Business Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.19%) Azure
2 9 (11.39%) AWS
3 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) IaaS
5 4 (5.06%) PaaS
5 4 (5.06%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (7.59%) Power BI
2 5 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.33%) Data Lake
2 5 (6.33%) QlikView
2 5 (6.33%) Tableau
3 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
General
1 27 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.25%) Public Sector
4 14 (17.72%) Finance
5 6 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Police
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.27%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.27%) FMCG
3 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.58%) Roadmaps
2 19 (24.05%) Agile
2 19 (24.05%) Business Analysis
2 19 (24.05%) Business Strategy
3 18 (22.78%) Decision-Making
4 17 (21.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.99%) Target Operating Model
7 12 (15.19%) Project Delivery
8 11 (13.92%) Data Management
8 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.66%) Analytics
9 10 (12.66%) TOGAF
10 9 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
11 8 (10.13%) IT Strategy
11 8 (10.13%) Project Management
12 7 (8.86%) Business Case
12 7 (8.86%) Business Transformation
13 6 (7.59%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.59%) SQL
2 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Degree
4 6 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.27%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.33%) Google
3 4 (5.06%) Pega
4 3 (3.80%) Sparx
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) Databricks
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) Symantec